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Fruit flies and pepper plants

megahot

megahot

I keep on seeing fruit flies landing on the top leaves of my plants. Why do they like my plants? I diont think they are harmful are they? Do they eat pests?
 
no they like rotting fruit, when I raised chameleons I used to make a banana mash to attract fruit flies, it was really cool to watch the babies eat the fruit flies.
 
Prehensile said:
no they like rotting fruit, when I raised chameleons I used to make a banana mash to attract fruit flies, it was really cool to watch the babies eat the fruit flies.
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ya, thats what I thought. I just thought it was odd that they keep landing on my plants, even after I killed a few lol. I need a lizard. Lol
 
Well i thought fruit fly lay there eggs/lava on your pods & then eat them from this inside? id do a forum search on fruit fly if i was you.

Mezo.
 
A small dish full of apple cider vinegar will attract fruit flies and they then drown in said dish. I spent $20 last year on a fancy fruit fly trap only to find that's all it essentially was, live and learn
 
LOL!!! the fruit flies I know of wouldn't touch a hot pepper they only go after sweet stuff, you guys guys are blowin smoke.
 
Well ask Gas, he reckons they pretty much nuked all of last years crops, read here.

Possibly was not Fruit Fly? but we do we have a major problem with it here (especially in QLD where Gas is)

Mezo.
 
Are they harmful? It depends on the family and genus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tephritidae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophilidae

Our fruit fly here (Bactrocera tryoni) is destructive as all hell... and they love nothing better than to inject their demon spawn eggs into peppers.

Queensland Fruit Fly
- Fruit flies can lay eggs in all types of maturing or ripe fruit, such as stone fruit, citrus, loquats and quinces, as well as some vegetables, including tomatoes, capsicums, and chillies.
- Tiny creamy-white maggots hatch from the eggs and burrow through the fruit as they feed. Infested fruit can look perfectly good on the outside but is mushy and brown on the inside.
- Fruit fly outbreaks cost Australian fruit growers more than $100 million each year in lost income and eradication.
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http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/agriculture/pests-weeds/insects/qff
 
Prehensile said:
LOL!!! the fruit flies I know of wouldn't touch a hot pepper they only go after sweet stuff, you guys guys are blowin smoke.
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Maybe yours wouldn't "the ones you know" but ours do.

gasificada said:
Are they harmful? It depends on the family and genus.

http://en.wikipedia....iki/Tephritidae
http://en.wikipedia....i/Drosophilidae

Our fruit fly here (Bactrocera tryoni) is destructive as all hell... and they love nothing better than to inject their demon spawn eggs into peppers.


http://www.dpi.nsw.g...eds/insects/qff
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Cheers Gas.

Mezo.
 
I tell you this you Aussies seem to have the worst luck, fruit flies that eat anything, Cane toads(some genius brought them to Florida also) Brown Snakes, some giant spider, the only mammal that lays an egg, Salt Water Crocs, Great Whites, Stone Fish, Fierce Snakes, and then your Gov. all but outlaws guns!!!!! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
 
If you want a gun, you can get a gun, legally or illegally. That goes for most countries in the world (if you know the right people) but why do you need with a gun? I'm not "anti gun" im licensed to own one, but most things can be got rid of with by other means.

Even house invaders, a simple blat round the back of the head with a baseball bat will take care of them. :P

Mezo.
 
Prehensile said:
I tell you this you Aussies seem to have the worst luck, fruit flies that eat anything, Cane toads(some genius brought them to Florida also) Brown Snakes, some giant spider, the only mammal that lays an egg, Salt Water Crocs, Great Whites, Stone Fish, Fierce Snakes, and then your Gov. all but outlaws guns!!!!! Whiskey Tango Foxtrot!
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Pfft thats nothing Prehensile you should meet my neighbours, talk about worst luck
 
Mezo said:
If you want a gun, you can get a gun, legally or illegally. That goes for most countries in the world (if you know the right people) but why do you need with a gun? I'm not "anti gun" im licensed to own one, but most things can be got rid of with by other means.

Even house invaders, a simple blat round the back of the head with a baseball bat will take care of them. :P

Mezo.
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I suppose you could beat a Croc too death with a bat, but if I was going to go swimming I would want a Shotgun with some slugs with a 00 backup, just in case. We don't need a license to own guns here unless your in one of the Fascist areas like Chicago or NY City then you have to register them. See Boston 1770s era when the King tried to take away our guns, he lost...
 
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